OK, following the inclusion of the guidelines in the newsletter I have added them to the Arch Packaging standards page - I have still left a cautionary note as it is still not totally clear how this is going to work in practice.
I am personally confused about a few things: a) are ALL pkgs without a "common" license supposed to contain an actual license file that is installed to /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname ? b) the BSD license issue - it should be set to license="BSD" but the actual license file should be included, with the copyright line, in the pkg? But where: /usr/share/licenses/common/BSD/$pkgname ? c) "Multiple entries in the license array are OR'd together as the majority of them apply in different cases, as opposed to applying at the same time." - eh? Can we have that in layman's terms, please? Many thanks guys! Phil > -----Original Message----- > From: Judd Vinet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 July 2005 20:53 > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch] License field in PKGBUILDs > > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:11:45PM -0400, Jason Chu wrote: > > Well, it's done now. The question remains, where do I post it? > > I suppose a Wiki page would suffice for the time being. A > be-all-end-all ABS tutorial would be pretty swell, and when we have one, > the license field info would go there. > > I plan to make another pacman release soon, so if you want to send me > a manpage patch or something, I can add it for 2.9.7. > > > - J > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
